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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Yielding
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Blessings
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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